Arkan

Note on transliteration in this article: This article makes use of more than one transliteration scheme. This is not nonstandard text, substandard work or ignorance on the part of the article's author.

Arkan Language relationships

	Reddic	Continental	"River Kepper"	not written [ʔar]
			Iozdsā	not written [æə̥z]
			Lissi	not written [æː]
		Insular	Red	o̽do [ˈaoð̞o]
			Bins (ext.)	*arV ?
	Pinnic	Tæbic	Minyic	araq [ˈaraqʰ]
			Tæblandic	arq [arqʰ]
		Uoqsaic	Qobsuot	not written [ˈharɨq]
			Papuisaoan	haorac [ˈhaʊ̥rak]
			Huqqoraz	uaraq [ˈwaraq]
			Benávęicćit	edeći [ˈɛɾɜˌʃːi]

Pagric	Kepper	Odic	Ćheū	ōus [əːʊ̥s]
			Qeuvlot	not written [ˈoluq]
			Qehol	olohh [ˈoloχ]
		Itic	Sqı̦̔rta̔	o̔rqa̔ [ɔʀqɐ]
			Śńæiŋtse	æurra [ɔʁʁə]
			Mpsoisdoa	not written [oːɢoɐ]
			Bueisledu	not written [ˈoʀɢu]
	Ixnic		Finθeok	eork [eʊ̥rkʰ]
			Juwθissian	iorik [ˈiɤrɪkʲ]
			Psguemmian	iaris [ˈiərɪɕ]
			Megferian	jariħ [ˈjɑrɪç]
			Toro	not written [ˈiɹʷi]

Proto-Arkan ʔVr-
Proto-Reddic ar-V-
Proto-Pagro-Pinnic ar-V-qV-

The Tæbo-Uoqsaic languages are restricted largely to the Pinnic Peninsula, Benávęicćit, spoken in the Eastern Kepper Steppes, being the one exception.

Continental Reddic is spoken along the western shores of Kepperland Proper. The language commonly referred to as "River Kepper" is unique in both its being the largest Continental Reddic language, and in its liberal borrowings from the Odic languages. Red is the only literary language. Bins is known only from the so-called "Salt-Stone Inscriptions."

The exact genetic relationships between the "Itic" and "Odic" languages are heavily disputed, and their accepted designations are largely geographic; the Itic languages are spoken in relative proximity to the the River Ixit (called ı̦̔t in Sqı̦̔rta̔), and the Odic ones by the Oso (Sq. oda̔). Ćheū is spoken on the barrier islands south of the Pinnic Peninsula, and Qeuvlot is spoken entirely within Tæblande, though the Qeuvles seem to have been recently driven from their original territories by the Qehols. Sqı̦̔rta̔ is the largest Itic language and is used as a lingua franca.

The Ixnic languages, or "Marsh Kepper," are considered to be Pagric largely by virtue of their location. They exhibit the most innovation of the Pagro-Pinnic languages, including an split ergative morphosyntactic scheme which seems to have arisen a priori, and not from the original postulated Proto-Arkan grammatical system. They lack entirely a series of uvular consonants (the [q] in, for example, Tæblandic arq "blossoming," or in Sq. Qe̔parro̔nt, "Kepperlands"), but boast both voiced and voiceless dental fricatives ([θ] and [ð]), found nowhere else in Pagric, and thought to be borrowed from the North Hapori languages, Rorapori, Hyapori, and Mišbola.